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Unconfirmed: Skip Hinnant, 91. PDuke Show; E;;ec Co/Love of Chair; Fritz Cat
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That Derek
Sep 19, 2022, 7:08:37 PM9/19/22
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Phil Proctor from Firesign Theatre posted this somewhere on social media.:
MY GOOD FRIEND, JOSEPH “SKIP” HINNANT, passed at 81, on Chincoteague Island, Virginia. We were great pals in college and performed together in the Yale Drama.
Here’s a brief resume of his accomplishments after graduation:
His first national appearance was as Cathy’s boyfriend
Ted, on “The Patty Duke Show” from 1963 to ‘65, and in 1967. He played Schroeder in the original off-Broadway cast of Clark Gesner’s You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, where his older brother, Bill Hinnant, played Snoopy. That, after appearing with us at Yale as the title character in Gogol’s play The Inspector General.
Skip was also a featured performer on “The Electric Company” (below), which aired 0n PBS from 1971 to ‘77. I loved him most as Fargo North, Word Decoder and as “The Boy” in the soap opera satire “Love of Chair.”
Later, he voiced Robert Crumb’s X-rated character Fritz the Cat in both the animated film (written and directed by Ralph Bakshi in ‘72) and its sequel created by Robert Taylor, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat in ‘74
.
Then, for a change of pace in 1977, he voiced the Easter Bunny in the Rankin/Bass stop-motion feature The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ To Town, and in 1980, he provided the voice for Pogo Possum in the film Go Pogo. But his most recent roles were as Flash Jordan in the PBS science show “3-2-1 Contact” and a part in an episode of “Kate & Allie” in 1989 as Bob Barsky’s boss
MY GOOD FRIEND, JOSEPH “SKIP” HINNANT, passed at 81, on Chincoteague Island, Virginia. We were great pals in college and performed together in the Yale Drama.
Here’s a brief resume of his accomplishments after graduation:
His first national appearance was as Cathy’s boyfriend
Ted, on “The Patty Duke Show” from 1963 to ‘65, and in 1967. He played Schroeder in the original off-Broadway cast of Clark Gesner’s You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, where his older brother, Bill Hinnant, played Snoopy. That, after appearing with us at Yale as the title character in Gogol’s play The Inspector General.
Skip was also a featured performer on “The Electric Company” (below), which aired 0n PBS from 1971 to ‘77. I loved him most as Fargo North, Word Decoder and as “The Boy” in the soap opera satire “Love of Chair.”
Later, he voiced Robert Crumb’s X-rated character Fritz the Cat in both the animated film (written and directed by Ralph Bakshi in ‘72) and its sequel created by Robert Taylor, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat in ‘74
.
Then, for a change of pace in 1977, he voiced the Easter Bunny in the Rankin/Bass stop-motion feature The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ To Town, and in 1980, he provided the voice for Pogo Possum in the film Go Pogo. But his most recent roles were as Flash Jordan in the PBS science show “3-2-1 Contact” and a part in an episode of “Kate & Allie” in 1989 as Bob Barsky’s boss
That Derek
Sep 19, 2022, 7:10:01 PM9/19/22
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Apologia: Hinnant waS 81, not 91.
A Friend
Sep 19, 2022, 10:04:52 PM9/19/22
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Kenny McCormack
Sep 20, 2022, 7:51:35 AM9/20/22
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Part of the joke was that he always introduced himself as:
Fargo North, Decoder.
Get it? Fargo, North Dakota. The joke doesn't work with the phrasing shown
above (in the quoted text).
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That's the Trump playbook. Every action by Trump or his supporters can
be categorized as one (or more) of:
outrageous, incompetent, or mentally ill.
>aired 0n PBS from 1971 to 77. I loved him most as Fargo North, Word Decoder
I don't think the word "Word" belongs here.
Part of the joke was that he always introduced himself as:
Fargo North, Decoder.
Get it? Fargo, North Dakota. The joke doesn't work with the phrasing shown
above (in the quoted text).
--
That's the Trump playbook. Every action by Trump or his supporters can
be categorized as one (or more) of:
outrageous, incompetent, or mentally ill.
radioacti...@gmail.com
Sep 20, 2022, 1:58:54 PM9/20/22
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Much appreciate your catching that, Sir McCormack; I'm one of those to whom you refer missing the clever gag--and while I've only been in Fargo once (in 1990), it turned out to something of a key moment* in my obscure life, so I'm a big fan of all things Fargo (including, of course, the Coen Bros masterpiece, which as you may well know was rather carelessly titled, as it's hardly even set in its titular locale).
Health and happiness to you and yours--and all Alt-Obits folk--this autumn, commencing Thursday evening during the minute of 9:03 pm Eastern Time.
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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* It's where I had the good fortune to first meet late Top-40 hit-machine Bobby Vee--whom a decade later I worked with at some length in Chicago television--long before his sad Alz's decline and death at 73 on Monday October 24, 2016 (the day after longtime Sacramento statehouse legislator and Jane Fonda-ex Tom Hayden** died of coronary complications at 76).
** Whom I proudly voted for as a resident of his westside Los Angeles district of the State Assembly on Tuesday, November 4, 1980--on the same oh-so-bipartisan ballot upon which I cast my first Reagan vote.
Health and happiness to you and yours--and all Alt-Obits folk--this autumn, commencing Thursday evening during the minute of 9:03 pm Eastern Time.
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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* It's where I had the good fortune to first meet late Top-40 hit-machine Bobby Vee--whom a decade later I worked with at some length in Chicago television--long before his sad Alz's decline and death at 73 on Monday October 24, 2016 (the day after longtime Sacramento statehouse legislator and Jane Fonda-ex Tom Hayden** died of coronary complications at 76).
** Whom I proudly voted for as a resident of his westside Los Angeles district of the State Assembly on Tuesday, November 4, 1980--on the same oh-so-bipartisan ballot upon which I cast my first Reagan vote.
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